On the day before moving into the nation's most storied house, Barack Obama visited a shelter for teenagers with no home.? With sleeves rolled up, he spent a few minutes painting for the benefit of the cameras that trail him everywhere now.
Cara Fuller, a shelter worker, asked if he was sweating.
“Nah, I don’t sweat,” he told her. “You ever see me sweat?”
Not yet. But then again, it is still early.
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This story makes the case that President Barack Obama won't be able to maintain the cool centrism he's practiced in these 77 days since his election. It's well written, but I can only give it average points for information because it says more about Obama's personality than it does about what competing forces and ideas he must balance in his first several weeks in office. The description of how he conducts himself in meetings is lukewarm, not very specific, and it could be applied to many people. There's also some vague phrasing -- "tap[ping] into the nation's intellectual dialogue" leaves lots to be inferred. Not a bad story, but not the analysis I was hoping for.
